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Comparative Vocational Education Research

Enduring Challenges and New Ways Forward

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Editors:
  1. Matthias Pilz

    1. Chair of Economics and Business Education, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany

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  2. Junmin Li

    1. Chair of Economics and Business Education, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany

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  • Theoretical perspectives and methodological designs of comparative vocational education research
  • Research results on international comparative vocational education and training
  • Lessons learnt from comparative vocational education research in practice

Part of the book series: Internationale Berufsbildungsforschung (INBER)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Introduction/Opening Chapter

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Comparative vocational education and training research: What purposes does it serve?

      • Karen Evans
      Pages 3-19

  4. Research Results on International Comparative VET

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. The learning outcome approach to European VET policy tools: Where are the arguments and the evidence?

      • Christopher Winch
      Pages 81-95

    3. The Swiss PET system and similar programs in Germany and Austria

      • Antje Barabasch, Naomi Heller
      Pages 97-111

    4. Competency-based education and training in Namibia: Educational transfer as imitation

      • Michael Gessler, Susanne Peters
      Pages 113-130

    5. Skill formation in cross-border contexts: The case of the trinational Upper Rhine region

      • Lukas Graf
      Pages 131-147

    6. Comparing the integration of technical vocational education and training (TVET) in systems of innovation: Towards a new cultural political economy of skills?

      • Jan Peter Ganter de Otero
      Pages 149-162

    7. Evaluating dual apprenticeship effects on youth employment: A focus on the mechanisms

      • Oscar Valiente, Aurora López-Fogués, Hugo Fuentes, René Rosado
      Pages 163-180

    8. Competency-based curriculum development in vocational education and training: An example of knowledge transfer from the Western world to India

      • Muthuveeran Ramasamy
      Pages 181-198

    9. Transfer research as an element of comparative vocational education and training: An example of factors influencing the transfer of dual training approaches of German companies in China, India and Mexico

      • Kristina Wiemann, Matthias Pilz
      Pages 199-219

    10. How decent is work in the automobile industry in Shanghai? What does it mean for Chinese vocational education and training? An analysis of shop floor jobs in the Shanghai automobile industry

      • Jun Li, Dongshu Li
      Pages 221-239
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About this book

The volume is devoted to the research of comparative vocational education and training, placing a special emphasis not only on theoretical development, but also on methodological approaches and on achieving excellent research outcomes by strictly concerning comparative studies in vocational education and training. This volume contains scientific contributions by renowned researchers of vocational education from all over the world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chair of Economics and Business Education, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany

    Matthias Pilz, Junmin Li

About the editors

Matthias Pilz is professor and holder of the chair of Economics and Business Education and director of the German Research Center for Comparative Vocational Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) at the University of Cologne in Germany.

Junmin Li is academic councillor at the chair of Economics and Business Education and researcher at the German Research Center for Comparative Vocational Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) at the University of Cologne in Germany.

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